New football boss Laura Kane is a feel-good story, but faces plenty of unfinished business

“Her knowledge of women’s football in Victoria was second to none, and she ruffled a few feathers around the league putting our team together because she knew all the players so well and she managed to recruit a super team.

“The players all respected her, but there was probably a bit of old-school male thinking within management of: ‘What’s this woman coming in and telling me what to do?’ She was astute enough to withstand that.”

In the administrative reshuffle at North that…